Church history (was "Rings with a twist")

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> From: Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com>
> To: Higher Fire <higher-fire@prairienet.org>
> Subject: Church history (was "Rings with a twist")
> Date: Friday, August 09, 1996 7:58 AM
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> > 	I thought the biggest group that we split from was 
> > the Pentecostal assemblies of the world?  I am asking this honestly
> > because I really thought that was one of the first oneness groups.
> 
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> Sadly, after a while these groups split along racial lines (most of the
> conferences were in the North, which was convenient for the white
> ministers -- most of who lived in the North -- but inconvenient for the
> often poorer black ministers -- most of who lived in the South at the
> time).  To the credit of the ministry, there have been a few
> experiments at organizational unity, but these things have (so far) not
> worked out.
I think that the biggest reason for having the conventions in the north was
due to segregation.  In the North, the whites and blacks were allowed to
attend church together, preach, pray, eat (important biblical doctrine
here-- breaking bread =))-- all of that TOGETHER.  This, as I remember it
(with a little bit of help from Fred Foster, _20th_Century_Pentecostals_)
was a big part of why the PAW did not completely integrate themselves with
the PA of JC (Pa of JC had a conference in Oklahoma in 1937, which the
black ministers were not allowed to attend due to Jim Crow and friends)
> 
> My own fuzzy recollection from reading the history books...

fuzzy-- isn't that an ai thing?

> 
> Richard M.

Brad

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